Animal friendly: Two arrested for throwing stones at pet cat

Complainant says cat injured by neighbours

PESHAWAR: The Gulberg police registered an FIR against a father and son for injuring their neighbour’s pet cat. The two were later arrested.

The complainant Rehana Habib lodged an FIR with the police Anees and his son Jawad Anees, threw stones at the cat and injured her pet.

“This woman submitted an application which was sent to the district prosecutor for legal opinion, Cantt SP Kashif Zulfiqar told The Express Tribune. “After the legal opinion was provided, we registered an FIR under Section 428 of PPC,” said Zulfiqar.

“Basically these sections of the Pakistan Penal Code deal with injuring or hurting an animal worth more than Rs10,” explained Zulfiqar. “We have booked the two accused under this law.”

Section 428 states, whoever commits mischief by killing, poisoning, maiming or rendering useless any animal of the value of ten rupees or upwards, shall be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both. Anees and Jawad were arrested later.

Pet lover’s woes

“This woman is really fond of cats and some time ago she approached us, saying her expensive pet cat had been stolen. She blamed her other neighbours for it but the case was without any evidence,” said the SP.



He added, her son Asad Masih entered the house of their neighbour to look for the cat and as a result the neighbours lodged an FIR against him under sections 457 and 506 of the PPC.

The woman has several pets which over which she has had quarrels with her neighbours in Gulberg.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 11^th,  2016.